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4.7 stars
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APRIL 30 IS HAIRSTYLE APPRECIATION DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO HAIRSTYLE GUIDE
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5 stars
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APRIL 22 IS EARTH DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO PLANET PROTECTION NONFICTION
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"Examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people-- especially those most often unheard ... [This book is] simultaneously a call to action, a guide to instigating change for all, and a pledge to work toward the empowerment of all people and the betterment of the planet"--Back cover.
24. Jazzed
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APRIL 30 IS INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO JAZZ FICTION
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"Academic geniuses, Wilhelmina "Will" Reinhardt and Dorothy "Dolly" Raab, become roommates at Barnard in the early 1920s, a time when college for women was a rarity. Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother's death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians, they come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies. Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their...
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APRIL 18 IS NATIONAL EXERCISE DAY
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"The bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct introduces a surprising science-based book that doesn't tell us why we should exercise but instead shows us how to fall in love with movement"--
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Battle hymn cycle volume 5.
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3 stars
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APRIL 9 IS APPOMATTOX DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO CIVIL WAR FICTION
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A dramatized retelling of the last days of the Civil War.
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5 stars
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APRIL 9 IS NATIONAL UNICORN DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO UNICORN-RELATED NONFICTION
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"In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years. Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it...
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3.8 stars
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APRIL 6 IS NATIONAL LIBRARY DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO LIBRARY FICTION
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29. Lies
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4.3 stars
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APRIL 4 IS TELL A LIE DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO LIE FICTION
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"Six days ago, Joe Lynch was a happily married man, a devoted father, and a respected teacher living in a well-to-do London suburb. But that was before he spotted his wife's car entering a hotel parking garage. Before he saw her in a heated argument with her best friend's husband. Before Joe confronted the other man in an altercation where he left him for dead, bleeding and unconscious. Now, Joe's life is unraveling. His wife has lied to him. Her...
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4.7 stars
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APRIL 26 IS NATIONAL AI DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO AI NONFICTION
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"What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business--and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has A.I. brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of A.I. is the story of intelligence--of life processes as they evolve from bacteria (1.0) to humans...
31. Linked
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4.3 stars
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THE THURSDAY OF THE SECOND FULL WEEK IN APRIL (APRIL 18, 2024) IS CELEBRATE TEEN LITERATURE DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO TEEN LITERATURE
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"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
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APRIL 5 IS READ A ROAD MAP DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO MAP-RELATED FICTION
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"An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China that reckons with the costs of pursuing one's dreams and the lives we leave behind"--
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4 stars
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APRIL 6 IS NATIONAL LIBRARY DAY
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"For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter's birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves--with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella--Sally's only child--fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of...
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Miss Peregrine volume 1.
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4 stars
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APRIL 27 IS NATIONAL SUPPORT TEEN LITERATURE DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO A YOUNG ADULT BOOK THAT ADULTS WILL ENJOY
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After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
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3.4 stars
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APRIL 10 IS NATIONAL SIBLINGS DAY
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"When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Reeses Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me comes a riveting mystery wrapped in an epic love story"--
36. One Killer Force
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Delta Force novels (Dalton Fury) volume 4.
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2.8 stars
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APRIL 6 IS ARMY DAY
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"Still recovering from his near fatal wounds suffered at the Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant, Delta Force Commander Major Kolt 'Racer' Raynor is thrust into a new battle with some of the toughest killers he's ever faced: US Navy SEALs. Government austerity measures have the Joint Chiefs of Staff contemplating the unthinkable--combining Delta Force and the SEALs into a single unit: One Killer Force. In this installment of [Fury's] series, Kolt's career...
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Oxford girl mysteries volume 1.
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5 stars
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APRIL 3 IS WORLD PARTY DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO PARTY FICTION
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"Internationally bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes Plum Sykes returns with a charming murder mystery set at Oxford University in the 1980s. After Oxford's most popular classmate is found dead, new students Ursula Flowerbutton and Nancy Feingold believe she has been murdered and work to solve the mystery."--
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Paws in the city volume 2.
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APRIL 11 IS NATIONAL PET DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO PET FICTION
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"Self-proclaimed hot mess Scout Myers is determined to prove she's finally got her act together. Raised by grandparents who saw her as her wayward mother's wayward daughter, Scout's used to being written off. So when the opportunity for a promotion arises at Paws in the City, the talent agency where she works, Scout is desperate to rise to the occasion. With shared custody of her little sister also on the line, Scout can't afford a single mistake...like...
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APRIL 11 IS NATIONAL PET DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO PET-RELATED NONFICTION
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"A celebrated veterinary behaviorist describes the practice of One Medicine, which hinges on the belief that humans and other animals have minds that work the same way, experience similar emotions and share the same neurochemistry,"--NoveList.
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4 stars
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APRIL 28 IS GREAT POETRY READING DAY; RECOMMENDED DUE TO POETRY NONFICTION
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"Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write now, whether we realize it or not--especially in social media--with its focus on brevity and creating the greatest possible impact with the fewest words. Poetry 101 is your companion to the wonderful world of meter and rhyme, and walks you through the basics of poetry. From Shakespeare and Chaucer, to Maya Angelou...